How Fans And The Media Are Making Professional Sports Unbearable

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Amidst the hate mail I receive from single mothers and pink-haired fatties, I’ve recently seen an uptick in readers asking why I haven’t written a sports article lately, the DeAndre Johnson fiasco notwithstanding. The short answer to that is that I just don’t consume as much of the fringe coverage or follow the stories off the field as much as I used to.

I’m a huge fan of the NFL so I’m not cutting back on that any time soon. I follow baseball fairly closely and I’m big into racing—NASCAR, Indy Car, and Formula One. But gone are the days where I followed any and every sport closely and took in all the coverage, debate, and discussion surrounding the events.

Thing is, the reasons have nothing to do with the athletes themselves as their level of talent and performance is at an all time high.

It’s that sports fans and the sports media are as intolerable as they have ever been in recent memory. The hypocrisy, cynicism, and of course the advancement of the feminist agenda have made consuming them nearly impossible for me these days.

Between all the faux outrage over domestic violence, the ridiculous “lean in” campaign, the exponentially increasing presence of the hamster-laden female opinion and “expertise” on television and radio, and fans who worship teams, players, while trying to bring the moral cathedral into the competitive arena, sports has become much less appealing to follow outside the lines.

Tune in if you want your ears to bleed

Being unplugged from the matrix, however, is definitely the main reason I find myself watching only the events themselves, often times with the volume muted.

There are countless stories or incidents I could tell about why this is but I’ll just give a few of the most publicized ones and I’ll break it down in two sections: The media and the fans.

Today’s Sports Media

ESPN

ESPN made its mark on myself and millions of other men at a very young age. I’ve watched their flagship studio shows like SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight, and Sunday NFL Countdown for decades so it’s safe to say that the sports media juggernaut has my loyalty by process of branding me as a 12-year-old.

This network is the true worldwide leader in terms of sports and sports content as their slogan says. They’re currently available in over 80% of house holds in the U.S., boast 12 different sister networks, and are broadcasting in over 200 countries. Needless to say they’re the big man on campus by a wide margin.

I’ve watched this show since I was a teenager

Being the biggest, most successful sports media conglomerate in the world doesn’t come without it’s detractors and criticism. No surprise there as the biggest and most profitable companies are scrutinized much more than their less successful counterparts.

I’d never been one who was outright critical of them on account of my loyalty and blue pill mindset. But since being enlightened by the web’s version of Morpheus, their gyno-centricism sticks out like a sore thumb and becomes more obvious by the day.

The female influence on all of their mediums are palpable, as women are now present on just about every program they broadcast. There are female doctors, female panelists on opinion shows, and even females breaking down fantasy sports.

Only her name gives us proof of her sex

Personally, I’ve never minded seeing women on the sports landscape. Linda Cohn and Robin Roberts never rubbed me the wrong way back in the day on SportsCenter and female sideline reporters are paid to look good and report the facts. Nothing wrong with that either.

Today, the network is rampant with hamster droppings. Social issues are every bit as a part of their overall narrative as what goes on on the field of play. Mix that together with ever-increasing employed female pundits squawking about domestic violence, gay athletes, Title IX, and the ongoing pathetic attempts by females to “play with the boys” every 5 minutes and any man with even trace amounts of traditional or neomasculine beliefs would eventually start to tire of the charade.

What they didn’t tell you is that the boys from Vegas gave Miss Davis a dose of reality

In their defense, it would seem that this radical shift is necessary. Our P.C.-saturated culture has made it almost mandatory for them to employ more women, talk about social issues, and take a hard left stance on said issues.

We can all say “Well I’d never sell out to satisfy the masses” but most of us would fall in line to preserve our six, seven, and even eight-figure salaries and I wouldn’t blame you.

I’d also argue that some of ESPN’s workforce does not believe a word of the blue pill trash they spew on camera or radio. The one example I can point out is Colin Cowherd, who hosts his radio show The Herd. His stance on domestic violence seems almost too black and white for a man of his open mindedness.

There have also been a few instances where red pill truth slips out every once in a while such as Stephen A. Smith’s take on the Ray Rice situation:

What I’ve tried to employ the female members of my family — some of who you all met and talked to and what have you — is that … let’s make sure we don’t do anything to provoke wrong actions, because if I come — or somebody else come, whether it’s law enforcement officials, your brother or the fellas that you know — if we come after somebody has put their hands on you, it doesn’t negate the fact that they already put their hands on you.

There was immediate outrage both in and outside of the ESPN family and Smith was immediately suspended for a week which prompted an immediate retraction shortly after, thereby eliminating the threat.

But what his statement says is that there are definitely people within their ranks who aren’t all in on the gender equality farce. And because they’re all handsomely paid, they keep their honest opinions to themselves and I can’t say I blame them.

Gotcha

The other issue that’s turned me off these days is the way most of the media treats professional athletes in terms of their questioning. I certainly don’t feel sorry for the athletes because of the “privileged” lives they lead (which, by the way, they work very hard for) but media members seem much more intent on making them uncomfortable than simply extracting information to distribute to the sports public.

The main purpose of the media is to get information about the athletes and the events the public wouldn’t otherwise be aware of. Yes, there are other elements but that’s the gist of what they are there for.

Today’s reporter or beat writers are consistently attempting to just piss athletes off. Get a rise out of them. There’s no rhyme or reason, it just seems like the thing to do these days. It’s as though they get off on ruffling the feathers of athletes, coaches, general managers etc. Most of the questions are designed to throw them off their game or make them look bad or ignorant—“gotcha questions” if you will.

This one’s not hard to figure out. The main reason for this is flat out jealousy. It’s often been said that most sports writers are people who would gladly trade places with the athletes they cover, but because of lack of talent, discipline, and genetics they didn’t make the grade.

So it stands to reason they project their negative feelings stemming from their unfulfilled dreams onto the people they’re paid to write and talk about.

To their credit, the media at large doesn’t seem to crucify the increasing salaries of today’s athlete so I’ll give them a break on that. But that doesn’t stop them from getting a hard-on over making grown men who are physically, financially, and socially superior to them uncomfortable and then gaining prominence of “getting the best of” player X, Y, or Z.

Today’s Fan

Fan worship

Show me a man who “lives and dies with his team” and I’ll show you a man who is unhappy with his life.

There’s nothing wrong with getting excited about your team if they’re doing well, and there’s nothing wrong with being a little bummed when they’re not. But grown men who get shit-faced drunk and call out of work on Monday if their team wins or loses the Super Bowl are fucking pathetic.

Outside of gambling or owning a sports memorabilia shop, your team being great or shitty does not affect your life one way or the other. A man who invests a disproportionate amount of their energy and emotion into their team is a man who desperately needs an overhaul.

This is nothing to be proud of

In the same vein, nothing is more pitiful as a grown man who wears an article of clothing with another man’s name emblazoned on his back. It’s okay to admire a player for his athletic prowess and performance on the field of play but I’ve never understood the desire for a man to proudly don another man’s name anywhere on his person.

There are plenty of other ways to show support for your squad without surrendering your balls and looking like a fanboy. Sport a team shirt, a team hat, or some other accessory.

But if a man hits the gym, learns game, and engages in self improvement he’ll have no desire to engage in such emasculating acts like wearing somebody else’s name on his back.

The moral cathedral and contradictions

This is a big one for me. Fans these days are more hypocritical and judgmental than they’ve ever been in history. They’ll vilify an athlete for testing positive for a performance enhancing substance but defend an athlete for the same thing because he plays for their team. Then later that day they drive to the doctor for their weekly testosterone shot.

This year’s MLB All Star Game is the quintessential example of how fans pick and choose who gets a free pass and who doesn’t. Nelson Cruz and Jhonny Peralta were voted in as American and National League starters, respectively, and both have served 50-game suspensions for testing positive for PEDs and everyone seems to be fine with it.

Fans outside of New York make A-Rod public enemy #1

However, when Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun was voted in a few days ago outrage immediately broke out. Fans also seem to be happy that Yankees DH Alex Rodriguez was not voted onto the All Star Team for the 15th time citing “justice” as their reason for approval of his omission.

Which is it?

Revisionist history and referendums

Fans these days also fall victim to revisionist history. Michael Jordan never missed a shot, Tiger Woods is the only professional athlete to have fucked multiple hookers, and LeBron James sucks as a human being.

His Airness

I’m not going to make this a debate whether or not Jordan is the greatest player of all time but any time I suggest anything to the contrary, I’m met with vitriolic and incredulous arguments. These people don’t realize that his shoes, the way he was marketed, and the lack of social media back when he played paints a different picture of what he really was as a player.

Yes, at this time he’s the greatest of all time but not by as wide a margin as people would lead you to believe. He’s not the all time points leader (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 38,387 pts), assists leader (John Stockton, 15,806 assists), or the career rebounds leader (Wilt Chamberlain, 23,924 rebounds).

Hell, he doesn’t even have the most career titles as a player as Bill Russell won 11 with the Boston Celtics, almost double the amount of his 6 with the Chicago Bulls.

He’s great, but not a god

The only statistical category he’s #1 in points per game and the guy behind him, Wilt Chamberlain, is only .05 points behind him. Never mind that today’s fan will crucify athletes for shooting too much or being “selfish” with the ball and not spreading the wealth.

The bottom line is that Jordan worshipers act as though His Airness was perfect in every way and is infallible which is revisionist history at its best and worst. Jordan’s one of the greatest. No doubt about that. But Nike and Gatorade have made sure we never question that he’s the greatest of all time and if you stop gawking at his shoes and carefully edited highlight reels and look at things objectively you might actually entertain thoughts that this may not be the case.

King James

Staying in the same arena, LeBron James has been the target of some of the most unjustified hate I’ve ever witnessed as a sports fan. This guy is the most unselfish star player I’ve seen since Magic Johnson. He could score 40 a game easy but he chooses not to.

What’s more is that he’s never been in trouble with the law, and by all accounts seems to be a devoted husband and father (though we never really know).

Yet, fans hate this guy with a passion. Why?

“He left Cleveland!”

A man makes a decision to go to a better organization with better players, better weather, no state taxes, and to win championships when it became clear to him that his current team didn’t have the infrastructure or the desire to put a championship caliber team around him. Yeah…terrible fucking individual.

“It’s the way he left Cleveland!”

Colin Cowherd said it best when he said (referring to LeBron’s exit from Cleveland): “You’re not really upset at how she left you….you’re upset thatshe left you and that’s the real reason you’re pissed off!”

Would I have held a television special to announce I was going to another team when I knew it would rip the heart out of my home town fans?

Probably not.

Would I have held a pep rally with my new team guaranteeing multiple championships and declaring that it was going to be easy.

Maybe, maybe not.

It’s been five years people…let it go

I’d like to think I’d have handled taking my talents to South Beach in a different manner but one never knows. Besides, who among us haven’t made stupid decisions in our mid-twenties? I don’t see any hands up.

Personally, I don’t give a shit how he handled it and I’m not going to judge him for the way he did it. To be honest it was quite entertaining because I’m not from Cleveland or Miami but I digress.

The point is, people will rationalize anything and The Decision is their excuse to hate on one of the greatest players in NBA history who also seems to be a pretty good dude to boot. Every possession is a referendum on his legacy and that’s just asinine.

What teenager would turn down doing this cover?

This, again, is another case of jealousy. We all saw him on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a teenager, we all saw him dubbed as “The Chosen One,” and we all now he’ll be one of a handful of billion dollar athletes when all is said and done.

But like I said in this article, LeBron haters should just admit they hate the guy because he lives a better life than they do and leave it at that.

Wrap up

So there you have it. Pompous, sadistic, feminist media members and delusional, envious, moralist fans are the main reasons I’ve drastically cut back on sports. I could go on for days about this stuff but I’m a team player so I’ll spare you a 10,000-word article this week.

I definitely still watch the games and races, but I can do without all of the increasingly spoiling trimmings on the side. It won’t be long before I wean myself off of the actual events themselves because of this stuff. When that happens, it’ll be a sad day indeed.

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277 Responses

I swear, the only reason I haven’t canceled my tv yet is because the Special Olympics will be aired on ESPN later this month and I am not missing that shit for anything in the world. After that, good bye

I have given up on bimbo movie watching. Nothing tolerable in common. I find that turning on background music, mixing drinks and either cooking dinner or even putting together a tray of cheese and olives etc etc ensures the same result only quicker and without having to be annoyed with the thot of the week and her tastes.

If I was going to put something on I would ask her “do you like 50 shares of gray” and then when she says yes i would tie her up and make her watch 30 hours of three stooges

Yes. I take entrance through my front door as a tacit acceptance that sex will happen so long as I don’t loose frame and fuck it up. It is mine to throw away. As long as I keep the drinks flowing, the charm up and continually escalate (Always be Closing) I don’t need and hour of silence where god knows what shit in her irrational brain will get triggered by something from a movie that her friends cousin had happen to her and now her pussy is as dry as the Sahara. Women aren’t consistent from one moment to another. When she is walking through your front door she has already said yes….keep building on that.

sex is more fun. Putting down chick shit to a chick who has come to your place to bang is crazy. After your dick is wet, then have fun pointing out her cognitive dissonance. Hell, maybe it will get her to leave.

There will never be either a group or a girl i am not banging in my home. Hell, if I could afford it there would never be a girl i am banging in my home. I would stick to all hotels or, better yet, have a second apartment just for Thots maybe a block or two away.

Bob is right. If this is working for you don’t stop. I, for one, never allow the television to be on. By the time I get to my front door my phone has the wifi and I can use my spotify playlist i have created for just this occasion. Walk into my living room and the music is already on. I do like to cook. I find it works well. But with the music on in the background and talking to her as I make something to eat….When I put my key in the door 100% of her attention is on my penetrating her…..I don’t want her to have a focal point outside of my cock until after I am done.

That blows too. It’s getting worse with every episode. Plus, strong independent Rachel McAdams is triggering the shit out of me. Only good thing is every single character is miserable as fuck, which is a great message in itself.

I’m liking this season a lot. The only thing that ruins it for me is rachel mcadams charachter, the fact she is lead detective on the case etc. Has to be the most unconvincing thing on the show. The other 3 main characters are great.

You’re right, she’s the main nuissance. I’ll wait till it’s over before I make a judgement but I can safely say it’s not even nearly as good as the first season. The suspence and this eerie, almost horror movie vibe is totally missing. But there are four more episodes so we’ll see.

I’m a sports fan myself but I’m no where near as big a fan as I used to be for all the same reasons you wrote in your article and because as I got older I found new interests. But listening to sports fans base their opinions purely on logic regardless or how hypocritical or stupid they are has always annoyed me.

Me too. When my favorite cricket team lost a major match in the world cup, I was overcome with grief. But I was fourteen then. I eventually grew up. Most men didn’t. Today I see a lot of my friends, grown up men, lamenting a lost match. I find it ridiculous.
As the writer said, I can’t tolerate when people actually begin to hate on cricket players. A player, who couldn’t make a place in my country’s national team, went to play for another country. A lot of people I met, said that he was a traitor. Traitor? He was just working in another country. Doctors, engineers, nurses, and a lot of people seek employment in other countries. Do we call them traitors? They are professionals who are seeking employment in other countries. Sports persons aren’t different.
And I’ve stopped watching NFL. I’ve gotten sick of all the moral policing, and judging the players on their personal life, and not on how they play their sport.

Same when I was young I’d get upset if my favorite rugby of football team would lose, it still annoys me a little bit but then I’m over it and I get on with life, some guys stay upset for days. Also like you said proffesional athletes are employees, they have a right to move, teams often aren’t loyal to them.

I wont disagree, but i dont think its a bad thing. As a man, sports is the only place where I allow my mouth to talk out of passion instead of reason. I indulge our our primal need for tribal competition…”us” vs “them” trash talk. ETc. its all hamstering and emotional talk and sports is an appropriate place for this type of hard wired stupidity. Regardless of the facts, i believe the lakers will win a championship each year. My rational mind knows we wont contend for years but my sports mind allows me to trash talk people regardless.

The only difference is, I strive to leave this emotional type of irrational thinking compartmentalized within the realm of sports. In the real world, facts and logic should rule our talk. If society could learn to compartmentalize ignorance within the construct of sports, it would make this a better place.

Of course, as this article says, the irrational nature of modern society is somehow managing to infuse even more irrationality into the already irrational world of sports.

The women, now, around sports shows, broadcasting, etc…have driven me away from sports. There used to be a time when and where a man could escape for a few hours a day to have a beer, hang with other men and enjoy the game. Not today. Women have fucked that up, too. They have to be in our arena (sports) to just get their attention fix.

I could give fuck all about what a woman thinks about the team or a coach’s decision to start player X. Women are doing nothing but attention whoring (in the studio, on the field, etc…). It wasn’t enough being a cheerleader, now they have to have their two fucking sense in on everything from the player starting to which package the defense will run next game.

Ladies…men don’t give a fuck what you think about these things. Just put on outfit, show your tits and keep your mouth closed. The good old days.

I agree, there’s some knowledgeable women on sport but most of the most inane and stupid things opinions I’ve heard about sport come from women. Sports has given into social justice which is one of the reasons I’m nowhere near as interested as I used to be.

Right.Agreed .Women are infesting OUR sports. I really hate the halftime interviews in basketball or football. The coach or the player is trying to get to the locker room to do his job when some tart asks him strategy questions . The coach looks clearly uncomfortable and can’t wait to leave yet has to talk to this chick cause I think it is contractual requirement to do these interviews. To make it fair I want to see John Madden or Charles Barkley MC a synchronized swimming or figure skating event….

And dont forget how we have to watch the real story of tom brady overcoming who gives a fuck to the tune of sad piano music playing in the background…before every game. Catering to the female fan base and giving them their emotional roller-coaster is killing sports.

Even the ufc does this emotional garbage now where the guys shoot promo vid where they show their feelings and shit.

I love sports as entertainment, and athletics as spectacle, but I stay away from the talking heads. If I want coverage, there are still a couple of talented long form writers out there. Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN, Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Paul Zimmerman (Dr. Z) was another good one but he’s sick now. These guys know/knew there is a world outside of sports, and they aren’t hotheads. As for mindless debates, that’s fine over a beer for a little while, but it’s all banter and nothing more. Spectator sports should be a distraction like movies or books, not a way of life unless your profession depends on it.

I dislike Lebron James simply because he comes across as a complete narcissist. I really have no problem with his leaving Cleveland other than the insensitive way he did it.

Your article missed the elephant in the room- the NFL’s treatment of Tom Brady. I can think of no better example of childish fanboy envy that ran amok. Brady bootstrapped his way to the most successful NFL career ever, never spoke ill of any of his opponents, and plays for less money than any other star QB in the league to give his team better cap flexibility. For no other reasons than “popular demand” and the fact that the NFL office is saturated with NY Jets fans, he gets suspended for 1/4 of the season. No matter how this situation ultimately plays out, it’s going to be impossible to see the NFL as anything other than a bad joke because of this. It’s pretty much the professional sports version of the Dreyfus affair.

I hate Lebron for being fake. He claimed he wanted to return home to Cleveland, but the simple fact is that if Miami beat the Spurs in the last finals against them and he won another championship then he would not even be in Cleveland right now.

But they didn’t, and he is. The “if this would have happened” argument is weak. LeBron was coming back to Cleveland as soon as he got to South Beach and everyone knew it. He did it not only to win championships, but to teach Dan Gilbert that he needed to bring in great players in their prime (Irving, Love etc.) rather than getting over the hill players at a discount (O’Neal, Jamison etc.)

The LeBron “being fake” thing is another weak argument. If you don’t like him because he’s LeBron just say so. But nobody knows what he’s really like and neither do you. So unless you have personal knowledge of what he’s like, can the “fake” argument because it’s weak.

Agree. There is nothing wrong for a man wanting to do better in his life (reaching for higher goals). People who didn’t like LeBron’s actions (not the man) are the one’s who need take a look in the mirror. These actions are exactly what men need to duplicate to find success in life. You should only want to work with good people (people who have the same drive, want to reach higher levels, be better, etc…). Again, it’s not the man but the actions.

He displayed an action that many men should strive for (and duplicate). Be better.

The NFL has been fucking up for awhile, now…the Brady thing is just one example.

The commissioner (and his crew) want to be the police of the league and they act like they are cracking down on shit but in reality they are fucking up more as the years go on. Past customers (like me) have dropped them altogether because they have fucked up and turned on their past customer base (men). They are pandering to women (like all corporations) and they don’t realize that women have no loyalty at all. As soon as the next new shiny and bright object comes along, then women will be off to the next thing (telling the NFL to fuck off along the way).

In the same vein, nothing is more pitiful as a grown man who wears an
article of clothing with another man’s name emblazoned on his back. It’s
okay to admire a player for his athletic prowess and performance on the
field of play but I’ve never understood the desire for a man to proudly
don another man’s name anywhere on his person.

This does have a near-analog in history, namely men running out to combat under the banner of a feudal lord, wearing his colors/heraldry/tartan, etc. The difference being however that in doing that, they were actually trying to keep their families from being slaughtered and pillaged by other men, or they were out trying to get more resources for their own families (through, well, slaughter and pillaging). So it’s similar, except today it’s done by pussies for no reason other than the need to worship some man who doesn’t know them and who wouldn’t spend ten minutes talking to them in a bar.

good point….I have always seen it to be so childish for a grown man to be wearing a sports jersey. Even at the the area or stadium! It’s like how can an athlete who is making millions upon millions (and like you said GOJ) who also does not give a shit about you be some sort of hero to you or someone you cheer for?? If it wasn’t for gambling, for me there would be no reason to watch sports.

There is an inherent need for men to follow other men. Through these bread and circuses, the State has found a way for men to follow inconsequential men like LeBron James instead of men like Jefferson.

Maybe, but I’ll tell you that a real man weighs the the panoply of men to follow, judges them unworthy, and then follows his own path. Trump is one such individual and he’s following his own path to become leader of the “greatest” nation on earth. I don’t see Trump obsessed with sports, or even promoting team or another.

Sports has become a substitute religion for many men, as they find some of the spiritual qualities of manliness that have been purged from the feminist leaning modern Christianity. I get why men want to devote themselves to a team (church) and even an athlete of extraordinary ability (apostles), even selecting one like M.J. or T.W. as their messiah.

At the end of the day when a man turns off the last light drifts off to sleep, neither M.J, T.W., ARod, or any of their disciples make a hill beans of difference in a man’s situation. On the individual can effect change in a man’s life. And that what men should celebrate. Revel in team #1 — yourself and our own accomplishments. Leave sports where it belongs, an entertaining diversion for a few hours here and there. Sports is no man’s life.

No… The fanboys were in need of leadership in boyhood and balls in adulthood. Like fatherless sons they seek out strong guidance compulsively. These writers and the womanly shit they cluck is more worthy of disdain in my personal opinion. I may even consider the fact that men can create an ideal larger than themselves and, if the purity of the message is sufficient other men will follow. It’s natural, and the reason that battles are won. Take a guy like Wendell Clark or Pete Rose (pre scandal) those guys really laid it out there and played with a real fighting spirit that is worthy of respect.

Sports entertainment is a Pyramid Scheme that so many people buy into that it continues to grow. Most of your sporting idols are some of the least virtuous people you will ever meet and are so because most sports require a paranoid sense of self entitlement to succeed.

You see that Cleveland Browns dindu this past week who tweeted the racist pic of a white cop being stabbed in the neck, complete with his shit grammar? Dude makes millions and pluralized police as, “polices.”

Excellent comment, but not necessarily a one to one analogy. I think it would be more the teams colors / name versus that of an individual player.

the distinction is small, but important. If you go out to celebrate your team in, say, a cap with the teams logo that is quite a different story than the idea that you would wear another man’s name across your back.

It is funny, when I was young I had a tshirt with a players name on it and my great aunt (my grandfather’s sister) who I always regarded as an annoying old bag, asked me how much I was getting paid to advertise that guy, team and brand.

Back then I thought she just didn’t understand. Now I know that it was me who didn’t understand.

It was like this 10-20 years ago when little league teams of 10-15 had 3-4 coaches. The kids who were really into sports actually played sports for fun. They shot hoops, played pickup basketball/football, kicked around a soccer ball, etc. While the dads had beer guts they also had big arms and chests. Also no one cared what the players did outside the field/court.

Nowadays most of the fantasy league people I meet are out of shape and love watching sports. Instead of playing basketball outside with their kids, they check their fantasy statistics or look up the latest sports gossip.

I never understood fantasy football. You pretend to be the coach and build a team by picks before the season, trade players, and watch endless Sports to get what each player did and how your dream team stacked against others. I’m guessing this provides those men something to “talk” about instead of talking about current events, self improvement, game, and how to build and fix shit. Totally non productive following each player’s stats. Plus it consumed ALOT of time. I tried it once and couldn’t care less about it.

Pathetic the football movies made lately where they pretty much try to make it seem like JV football is fucking Verdun with the music and bro crap. Those tools would be the first to run into a heavy machine crossfire with their rah rah bullshit making about 6′ of advance.

Weak sauce. It’s about market value. People who “actually contribute to society by saving lives” are important but people don’t spend money to watch them contributing. And “throwing a ball through a hoop” on a professional level requires a lot of hard work.

Exactly. This is exactly my point about people who grand stand in this fashion. Standing up for teachers, cops, and firemen doesn’t win anyone favor with the masses no matter how “noble” the point they think they’re making.

These so called “noble” professions and are done to help people and society by people who care about people and society. Teaching and fire fighting is not about money its about being a good person and doing something that may help or change children/teens and help society. As soon as money is an incentive in these professions you get people doing it only for the money not the greater good…which is a problem

Go and research the purpose for those occupations. “Being a good person”, saving the children and being nice to cute furry animals had nothing to do with it. Teachers were created to indoctrinate the population, the police were created to keep you in line if the indoctrination failed and firemen would let your shit burn if you didn’t pay them (like they do now).

If you think these people do this work out of the goodness of their fluffy pink hearts you need to double up on your red pills.

Not disagreeing with anything you are saying in today’s society but as you can see noble was in quotes. Could you not agree though at one time teachers actually were there to teach the 3 R’s and fire fighters, who were volunteers, helped to put out a fire because it was thy neighbors house or barn that was on fire. So at one time people actually cared about each other.

Thats exactly what I will never understand. Aside from soccer other countries don’t have the huge sports “industry” (if you can call it that) that we do. We have football, baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, fuck even golf can make you insanely rich if your good enough at it.

The thing is where does all that money come from? All of us. Athletes are making all this money now because we have a nation of people with nothing better to do than to throw their money at athletes for being good at w.e sport they’re playing. Like the article said we’ve got a nation of people willing to pay to wear another mans jersey. Its like everyones lives have gotten so mundane and shitty they have to live vicariously through other people or teams.

“Its like everyones lives have gotten so mundane and shitty they have to live vicariously through other people or teams.”

So true, if not other people or teams its their children! The crazy amounts of money and time wasted on kids to make a professional sport is literally bankrupting families i know! Hockey dad’s dads are insane in Canada as I bet the same is with every sort of sport dad!

I spent 12 years as a volunteer coach in youth sports; basketball, baseball, and softball.

IME, the baseball parents were the absolute worst. During the games, there’d be long stretches of inactivty. Quiet time. Then you could hear all the assinine shit the parents were saying to the umpires, the other team, the coaches, and their own kids. Fucking ridiculous and many of them though their kid was going to be the next MLB great.

In contrast, during a basketball game, there’s not much quiet time. There’s lots of shouting, cheering, whistles blowing etc. I never recall hearing anything from the stands during a basketball game because there’s so much commotion and activity.

And as far as bball parents, most of them knew how good their kid was and didn’t have ridiculous expectations of the kid or me as coach to turn out the next Jordan.

So not all the money is coming from us. We are being driven towards it.

But why is this do you think?

Ignorant people are easy to manipulate.

It boggles my mind how the average American can spout off the latest Hollywood gossip or sports statistics without missing a beat but the same person is generally clueless about current events or other more important things. These people just blindly accept whatever the powers that be tell them to think.

So outside of the man-jersey thing, what’s wrong with living in a nation prosperous enough that we can afford to pay basically otherwise useless people to do what they naturally excel at doing? Beats them being on the streets organizing revolutions.

I’m neither here nor there with regards to the business of professional sports but I am beyond disgusted at politicians at the state and local level who cut checks with our tax money to build stadiums and lure teams to play.

Professional sports is a lucrative industry in its own right. It does not need to be on the dole.

If I spend $100m a year am I actually contributing to society? Beyond the enjoyment that people get from watching me (hypothetically) “throw a ball through a hoop” what about all the jobs I generate by either spending or investing that money? How much are you contributing to society? Less or more than a basketball player?

Actually yes, it will. What happens when you spend money on a product or service?

People get paid, things get made, jobs either continue or are created. If the amount paid causes an overage beyond what they take as personal profit then the money either gets invested back into the market through equities and other financial instruments, or they go into research and development. This doesn’t even consider the downstream industries that also profit by the spending, such as fuel, transportation, raw resource extraction, animal rearing, etc.

I’ve always hated this argument. Sports have a huge economic impact. Whole cities like green bay survive because of a sports team. Athletes do build infrastructure and also provide employment for lots of doctors…c’mon think about it a little.

ESPN is full of White Knights and feminist SJWs. I can’t take any of those clowns with manginas seriously. I was watching that dumbass ‘His and Hers’ show and the black dude Michael Smith went full retard as a White Knight. He was going on a rampage on how De Andre Johnson was wrong..blah..blah..blah..should have walked away..blah..blah..blah..

These guys need to understand that not all men are beta-males that like to be used as punching bags. They’re basically stating it’s okay for any woman to go up to a guy and assault them and the guy won’t retaliate and is at fault by default. That kind of thinking will get women hurt and put in harms way like the fat stupid chick who hit the FSU QB. Now women think they are equal to men from a physical standpoint and are tough enough to start bar fights with us.

After that I think I’m done with ESPN and their hatred towards us men. They bent over and got sodomized by the feminists and have an agenda to soften up and make sports seem more gay for the pussy White Knight Liberal media.

I’ve been there about 10 times, but the girls are not as good as advertised.
Your standard moscow girl is generally worse than your standard western girl. I put it down to poor diet, bad climate, some poverty, and the fact that all the decent russian girls have done to london or dubai to rent our their bodies.

Basically sports are now just a soap opera or reality show. We have made these athletes into celebrities and they are so mainstream and part of our pop culture. So now the sheeple buy what the media is selling them about sports (all this stand up for cancer, pink shoes for breast cancer, pro war and army etc.) and end up worshiping these athletes who really deserve no praise or accolades. Really what do they do? Now the sheeple end up spending all their money on overpriced tickets, concessions, and merchandise for teams and athletes that really add no value to your life. I always laugh at when people tell me “You gotta support the team”.

That is true, but the country you are raised in has a much more prominent influence on your personality than your genetic ethnicity.

As I’ve mentioned before, this is no less true than when it comes to Australian born Asian girls.
You will never meet a more stuck-up woman than the average Aussie-born chinese. Raised in a hotbed of feminism and entitled arrogance, add to that being hit on by hundreds of desperados trying to get their yellow wings, and you have a sure fire recipe for a complete and utter princess.

Australian cricket team aren’t as bad as what the Australian public like to say, they were arrogant in the 90s but backed it up on field. Today it’s a whole new team but the public still go on about them being arrogant based on a retired group of players 15+ years ago. They will still call the Australian team arrogant in 50 years time even with whole new players who may be humble as pie. Look that The Indian, South African and English teams lover the years, just as arrogant as Australia were but without the success. I agree about Krygios though, he’s a cockhead of the highest order.

Every test team does those things people just kick up a fuss when Australia does it. I fully admit in The 90s The Australian team was arrogant and their on field behavior wasn’t great but they backed it up with performance and when they did lose they never made excuses unlike England and India over the years. Also the current Australian team doesn’t have one member from that era unless you count their coach, but people will label every single Aussie team arrogant based on one group of players that have now retired.

Its interesting how one slowly disengages and then rejects the professional sports mania. For me it was not a sudden rejection, but just a gradual drifting away and realization that this worship of athletes is empty and becoming destructive to society.

It is a farce of the really valuable things. IT is noise without substance. IT is even propaganda for false images of racial issues, social issues and feminist issues.

Gradually the juxtaposition between reality and the propaganda is unbearable and unsustainable.

I am fed up with seeing the white man build and do the heavy work of civilization and subsidize everyone else. IT is beyond disgusting, it is a farce. The games on anothers dime must end. Enough.

It’s ok man, giving up on sports is like giving up cable television. You are certain that it’s going to be awful, what oh what could ever replace those things you spend so much time on? How ever could you possibly fill the void? What could you possibly have to relate to others with? Etc.

But then you drop them like hot potatoes, never look back and discover that you’re interfacing with the same amount of people about new, more healthy interests, you find more time for real hobbies, and life goes on as normal, usually down a better path.

Yep, agree. Once you get rid of cable TV you will not miss it. You’ll find better ways to spend your time and the “programming” of your mind will stop (your life will get better). I don’t expose myself much to TV because it truly is programming (subconsciously)…many people aren’t aware of it.

I heard our so called commander in chief, today, and a few comments about Iran (new sanctions bill). I was wondering if he was going to have a special moment on TV to talk about how important it is to go over that latest trade bill (TPP) and the details (before it fucks over many working class Americans). Probably not, because he owes big donors (big money corp) and he can’t get elected again. Oh well, fuck you America…now get out there and watch your favorite team.

At this point, I would rather watch a high school game than college, and a college game rather than pro. In that progression, it becomes steadily less about the game and more about personalities and marketing.

Wimbledon was an eye-opener.Contrast the men’s game with the women’s,everybody? would have to agree the women are woeful much as the BBC tried to tell us different.The women’s game was more entertaining when there were long baseline rallies but since now,women try to emulate men,
they get passed at the net with ease and that is reducing the standard and time they have to play.

I’ve never understood how men could be so caught up in the efforts and achievements of other men when they have their own lives to live. Professional and college sports viewing are one of the worst ways to waste the precious time God has granted us on this earth. I remember one evening at a local watering hole watching two morons get into a fist fight over a basketball game between Duke and UNC Chapel Hill, a huge rivalry down here. After they were separated and settled down, I asked the two morons who were so invested if they were graduates of the schools they supported, and as it turned out, neither one of them had even been to college, let alone two of the top tier universities of the southeast. I graduated from Westchester U back in 1988, and have never cared then or now how their football or basketball team did or does, and have a degree from the school…those dudes are pathetic. I love judo and still compete occasionally, and that is where my involvement starts and ends, in earning medals for my efforts and in improving my technique.. that is what sport is for, to improve yourself, not waste time burning the boob tube watching strangers play so you can wear their names on your back and get dressed up like an idiot to pay to sit in their stadiums.

Same, except I went to THE Ohio State University, and I live just north of Columbus. Talk about not fitting in with the *only* topic most people want to talk about from late August forward.

The only saving grace is that we still have coach Earl Bruce on the radio during that time, giving commentary throughout the week. I could give two shits what he says about sports specifically, but he’s great to listen to on the radio because he’s old world, red pill “man’s man” in an 80+ year old package. The words “political” and “correctness” together in a sentence are alien to him. He smacks down pussies and whiners constantly and when he speaks everybody listens and gets quiet, treats his observations, however rough edged, as the delivered words of God; even former “superstars” who come on to comment on the radio.

Do they still riot on the corner of 12 and High Street — win or lose? It woudn’t be the OSU I remembered without the smell of CS gas wafting over campus.
Of course, usually most of those arrested are (1) not students and (2) not living in Columbus.

Haven’t seen that in a long while actually. The last time I ever smelled tear gas on campus was when they were trying to stop students from tearing down the goal posts after a win in the Horseshoe.

I actually used to live on the corner of Chittenden and 12th in the very late ’80’s. It was a short hike up to to High, which meant I was always drunk-walk capable of getting some gyros from Louie over at Apollo’s.

Was that the 94′ game when the Buckeyes (finally) beat Michigan and the state troopers formed rings around the goal posts? Big mistake. The TV screen went black just as the CS canisters were popping off on the field.
My sister was going there in the late 80’s (King Ave.) and I used to visit when home on leave. Used to hit Mean Mustards and Papa Joe’s. I lived way down on 14th when I was going to OSU n the mid-90’s. Got tired of the neighborhood (cough) and decided to share rent with an old budd who was living in Grove City for my last year.

That was it precisely, in fact I was in class there at the time (well, not precisely at the time of the game, but you know what I mean).

Yeah, the entire back sprawl around OSU was certainly “enriched” by “diversity”. When on Chittenden I always had a gun handy *in the house*. One weekend we (my buddies and I in the house) witnessed cops flooding across the lawn of the duplex and forming a tactical formation on the house next door. Apparently my neighbor was wanted by the FBI for murder. I always wondered why he never came to the neighborhood cookouts (j/k). Freaking weird ass place, to say the least.

They had one big riot in 95′ which I witnessed– riot police showed up and started firing “knee knockers” into the crowd. They had it coming.

“Freaking weird ass place, to say the least.”

Slums are like that. I slept with a .32 automatic under my pillow while living in a dump on 14th with other students and some poor folk (cheap rent) who I barely got to know. None of us stayed longer than we had too. It was more like a half way house.

I’m glad you mentioned Bill Russell and his championships with the Celtics. So many people seem to forget that, or they never knew. I’m a Celtics, Red Sox, Bruins, and Patriots fans, but I never let bad seasons ruin my day. The Red Sox were the worst team in baseball a few seasons ago before their last World Series win. This did not make me depressed. I hate when my teams lose, but these losses are not serious life events. MRSA infections are something to be bummed about, not games.

I still wear a Brady jersey, though. 😀 So I guess I can be pathetic sometimes.

The latest Lean In campaign in the NBA made me sick. Where are the women leaning in for their brothers who get screwed by the education and court systems? How come guys always have to lend a helping hand, but women never have to lift a finger?

Well, what gets me is the faux outrage we get from markets that are far away from the source of the ‘outrage’. I live in Vancouver Canada and to hear the frothing at the mouth from some of the sports readers over LeBron James is beyond belief. These folks are just parrots. We are on the other side of the damn continent. Who the eff cares?

The irony is that the sports readers from the news-oriented radio channel (those in YVR will know what I mean by “Dubya”} are more rabid than those men over at our local pure-sports radio channel.

A few years back, I actually remember the sports-only gents pondering whether or not Tiger Wood’s wife hitting him with a golf club was a case of domestic violence. The news-only guys were talking about how Tiger let his caddy down with his promiscuity.

Great article. One comment: “I’ve never understood the desire for a man to proudly don another man’s name anywhere on his person.” I have one exception to this rule. I have a #40 Pat Tillman Cardinals jersey.

This is interesting.
Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1987), a highly honored British general and historian – As Glubb explains, the heroes of an empire’s people change over time as their values do. Soldiers, builders, pioneers and explorers are admired in the initial stages of the empire life cycle. Then successful businessmen and entrepreneurs are esteemed during the ages of commerce and affluence.

For example, late 19th-century middle-class Americans wanted their children to learn the values of prudence, saving and foresight as found in the stories of author Horatio Alger, whose heroes lead exemplary lives striving to succeed in the face of adversity and poverty. Intellectuals are also increasingly respected during the age of intellect.

During the last stages of decadence and decline, an empire’s people often think most highly of and imitate athletes, musicians and actors—despite how corrupt these celebrities’ private lives are.

I always wondered if I was alone on this. I stopped watching ANY pre or post game crap 15 years ago when i could see what they were doing. I watch almost all pro football with no sound because so often their ‘analysis’ is a narrative they in the media created just to hammer in during the contest. How many times do we need the shot of their wife / girlfriend / mom? I see in fact, other red-pill men DO see it.

Once I loved watching the Olympics. Seeing athletes compete from all over the world in events you otherwise would not be able to see very often. But today I just can’t stand the media coverage. It is 90% human interest stories/hype and a little bit of actually covering the event.

Athletes personal lives are no more interesting than fungus growing on my gym socks. What is interesting is watching them compete sprinkled with a bit of analysis.

I remember when that shit started in earnest. Late 1980’s or early 1990’s. Was watching some event and they started with the, now normal, “human interest”. My dad was watching with me and we both laughed and he asked “Why do they think we give a shit?”

It got worse and eventually I stopped watching as well. Not a huge loss really, they rarely cover the things I like to watch anyway nowadays.

“My dad was watching with me and we both laughed and he asked “Why do they think we give a shit?”

Most men don’t. I believe this snooping around into sports person’s personal life was targeted at women. Feminists wanted to make sports more “woman friendly”, while the sports channels desired a bigger audience.

Once it became clear that “wookit my widdle feewings and stwuggles” was here to stay, we stopped tuning in. My pop and I followed a similar trajectory on that count, neither one of us watch sports at all these days, not even live and in person. Except for the occasional live minor league baseball game, which I consider rather harmless and akin to fishing: you don’t go there because you actually care about the end result, you go there to enjoy a nice, relaxing quiet time in the company of others.

That girl had her jersey sent to Cooperstown. Think about that. It probably mere feet away from something related to Ted Williams, probably the greatest all around hitter in the modern era AND someone who served in WW2 and actually saw combat action during the Korean War. He managed to land his plane after taking fire. It was ON fire as he landed. Not even a scratch on him.
He went back to the majors, ultimately missing almost 4 full seasons due to serving, which probably cost him the all time lead in RBI.
But that girl’s achievement is impressive lol

Just as I believe Disney and the parents allowing their girls to grow up on their misleading toxic messages, I believe guys who live and die by their teams success to be the biggest fucking losers in America. Everything about the ESPN nation sucks. Groupthink, no individual thought, fanatic enthusiasm, spending their money and time when they could be doing something productive with themselves. I blame the ESPN/ jock nation for the reason this country is in the mess we are in. Ask any of these fucktards about current political events and they cant be bothered. They are only concerned with their job and then its about their team.
Most of the shit we discuss in ROK is because American men have dropped the ball when it comes to taking part in the direction of where this country is heading. These people are so pathetic and have nothing going on personally that they take on the fanatic role because itts an easy identity to latch on to. I get it every guy likes their hobby but dont make it your fucking lifestyle and identity.
This thug mentallity that comes with these people that follow these teams is pathetic too. In L.A some guy gets beaten to a pulp by some piece of shit gangmembers that jumped a guy for being a supporter of another team. That shit happens all the time. I see these dumbasses at the sportsbars getting way too loud because some steroid monkey got a ball past some lines or in a net. Grow up and get a fucking life and spend that energy it to something that actually matters.

Whaddaya know, just spotted this on my lunch hour on ESPN. Tell me, do you REALLY think the women are saying/doing anything productive other than providing somewhat eye candy and serving as token hiring quotas?

The most disgusting display of a lack of masculinity is at your neighborhood buffalo wild wings. Nothing is sicker than a bunch of morbidly obese men wearing stretched out jerseys with another mans name on their back and yelling “we won, we won!”

Your not a winner, your drunk and eating chicken wings. You accomplished nothing. You can also throw the fantasy football loser into the mix too. I remember last November i was at a hotel lounge and a man jumped up screaming…”thats my running back” as he spilled his drink everywhere.

I always wonder what the players think of these clowns? Guys like JJ Watt must get tired of seeing grown men act like 12 year olds in public.

I have an old friend who used to play football and even played for Texas A&M (he was a walkon).

Anyway, he’s a huge NFL fan and a Fantasy Football champ in his town.

He calls me up a few months ago to ask advice about restoring a 65 Mustang he’s had in his garage the last 10 years. Having some experience with muscle cars and a few successful projects, he thought I might be able to help.

He told me that he wanted to make a list and start fixing it. So I suggested some things that worked for me.

He said “I don’t have enough time”. I said “well at least during the summer, you ought to go out to the garage on Sundays for the same number of hours you spend on fall Sundays watching the NFL — by the end of summer you’ll have over 100 hours into it will have made some good progress”/

You could have heard a pin drop right then. As if that idea was the most preposterous thing he’d ever heard.

And I wasn’t even telling him to work on the ‘stang rather than watch football, which is what I do or would do in his place.

Nope. See during summer there’s golf, tennis, and I guess PCCAR races.

So the ‘stang continues to serve as a storage shelf and space occupier in his stuffed garage.

Watching sports is a collossal waste of time and due to all the social justice shit they’ve injected, it’s not even entertaining to me any more.

No more cable, no more weekends wasted watching other people do stuff. I’ve been on the no TV bandwagon for years and agree with others’ comments here regarding the benefits of living one’s own life rather than living vicariously through others.

Thats a really sad story. I used to think that on their death beds, these people will wish they didnt waste so much time watching stupid tv programming. Sad truth is, these kinds of people will be begging for more time…to watch football.

The number one market for the nfl is women and emasculated men who purchase goods. Not men who pursue goals. Just like how all the players wear pink for a month to cater to the female fanbase, 10 years from now im sure they will wear rainbows for a gay pride month.

Professional sports is another arena where women have juxtaposed themselves into a place where they do not belong. I’ve said it before that feminists pick and choose the areas of society in which they would like to be equal or greater. Women don’t care about professional sports. They follow the crowd! No one gives a crap about women’s soccer! No one cares about women’s tennis! What straight male could say that they think it’s right Rhonda Rousey has become a man with a vagina? And it will continue. Some butch fattie will try to make a college football team.
Men and women ARE DIFFERENT! Straight men don’t try to masculine women. I don’t think a straight man would be welcomed into women’s tennis. WTF!

I see lot of people wearing sports jersey to cheer his favorite player. But Player never care about their fans , they just make millions of money and even they do not contribute to the society which i feel is disgusting about some players .

I don’t follow sports. Sometimes I will read up on them so I can feign a passing knowledge to carry on a conversation, but generally, I just don’t give a shit. I was into UFC for several years because I find martial arts interesting overall. Still, I am not going to lay out 20 bucks to have a t-shirt that says “The Iceman Commeth” or WTF ever. Hell, even having the Nike or Adidas logo on my shit makes me cringe a bit, but the stuff tends to be inexpensive and reasonable quality.
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I’ve always been a loner. Team sports and their supporters are much more tribal, even pathologically so. One of the most fucked up examples is the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. I was born in 1966 and the Leafs won the Stanley Cup that season, but never again in my lifetime. And yet they are the most valuable and lucrative franchise in the league and can sell out games consistently. They get premium air time and people eat up their paraphernalia for lots of $. They are a bunch of the most over-worshipped losers ever.

ESPN is about ratings and revenue first and sports last. All decisions are based on the bottom line. That’s why they promote large market teams and players in all sports as well as the PC promoting of women in sports and in sports reporting ad nauseum.

I’m in a band with 3 guys who are huge sports fans. In one weekend my grandma died, AND their team lost a championship game. A week later when we got together guess who was still cycling through emotions of sadness and anger? Hint: It wasn’t the guy who had a significant death in his life.

Wanna see stupid, Donovan? Check out the Brady fiasco. Sports are rotten from the head-down. I personally believe all women outside of OJ Simpson’s wife deserve heartily what they get. The DV issue is out of hand and honest women would say so. Target the King (men) don’t you miss. But you women aren’t equal. Men will knock your ass OUT. At the end of it all, you’re vulnerable. We’ve seen it repeatedly. Trouble in sports is now shared with women. But there were enough bullshit jobs for women to take without wrecking broadcasts as announcers. Anyone reporting sports that has not been IN sports has to be classified as part-pussy.

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